Husband of woman stuck on board Carnival ship details conditions

Thousands of people are stuck inside a crippled cruise ship, enduring deplorable conditions.

Toilets are overflowing, there's no air conditioning, and food is running low.

The husband of a Sacramento woman stuck on the Carnival Triumph on Wednesday described what life is like on board that ship.

More than 3,000 people were expecting a tropical getaway.

What they got was an adventure they'd rather forget.

When Steve Peery's wife, Cindel Pena, boarded the Carnival Triumph, he wished her a wonderful time on her college reunion trip, but "wonderful" wouldn't describe this voyage.

“Monday night was the last time I got any information from her, and it was a text basically saying, get me off this ship, it's getting bad and scary,” Peery said.

Before their communication came to halt, when passengers lost cellphone reception Monday, Pena described the conditions on board the ship that is now being towed to port in Mobile, Ala.

“She was worried because the ship was leaning, and she didn't understand why it was leaning," Peery said. "There was nobody telling them anything about what was going on."

Things only seemed to get worse.

“I get another text saying there was feces and everything on the ground in the bathrooms, and they were given baggies to go to the bathroom in, and if they had to go to the bathroom, they could do it in the showers,” Peery said.

The CEO of Carnival cruise lines made a statement.

“Every action we are taking is to get our guests home as quickly as possible, and to make them as comfortable as they can be,” CEO Gerry Cavil said.

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